Word is, and you know how the word is, that Obama had been leaning to picking intelligence professional John Brennan, who advised him during the campaign, as CIA director.
Hoover and his colleagues picked up intelligence that Morgan and other members of the Second Front, including Menoyo and Jesús Carreras, had gathered in Trinidad, where they had secured a muddy airstrip, effectively cutting the island in two.
The French flights were canceled after American officials picked up intelligence indicating that terrorists might try to board and the names of at least a handful of passengers on the flight manifests appeared to match names on American terrorist watch lists, American officials said.
Applicants received two points for answering "dependency" or "affectionateness," one point for choosing "beauty" and none for picking "intelligence" or "independence".
Was Mr Feith then disobeying his boss when he set up a Pentagon operation to cherry-pick intelligence on the insubstantial connections between Iraq and al-Qaeda?In other areas, Mr Feith has a selective memory.
Interestingly, these revelations confirm complaints that political appointees and senior officials tend to cherry-pick intelligence to justify a pre-determined course of action, again either for political reasons or personal gain.
Toward the end of 2006, Israel began to pick up intelligence of possible renewed nuclear activity.
Mowlam, an irrepressible optimist, would wander the corridors, pop into the parties in other rooms, pick up intelligence and exude the necessary sense of momentum.
The air assault was a way for the battalion to re-establish its presence in an isolated area, detain insurgents and pick up intelligence on the region.
Later, The Times also published some excellent work on how an administration eager to justify its decision to go to war cherry-picked the intelligence to make its case.
Even if you buy Rove's predictable (and easily refuted) claims that the White House neither hyped, manipulated nor cherry-picked the intelligence, his portrait of Bush as an apostle of containment is absurd.
